Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-04 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Aditya Kapil wrote, [on 12/5/2008 11:52 AM]: > Actually this may not be true... Jazz players try never to play the same > number the same way. If you intend for *similar* to mean another rendition > of the *same* song, then that's missing the point... Two versions of > Coltrane's "Love Supreme", f

Re: [silk] Restaurant food, standards, etc. (was: Restaurants in Hyderabad)

2008-12-04 Thread Madhu Menon
Aditya Kapil wrote: I'm not sure this applies to even gourmet cooking... whereas two chefs from different parts of Spain may have distinct renditions of paella, I'm not sure that EACH chef's dish would taste very different on two occasions. Or would it? I am willing to be educated here... Madhu?

Re: [silk] Restaurants in Hyderabad

2008-12-04 Thread Aditya Kapil
Actually this may not be true... Jazz players try never to play the same number the same way. If you intend for *similar* to mean another rendition of the *same* song, then that's missing the point... Two versions of Coltrane's "Love Supreme", for example, can sound very different (albeit in the sa

[silk] location Re: Silk HYD meet - hijacked for FOOD!!!

2008-12-04 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 09:26 +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: I am hoping he will agree to meet me tomorrow instead. So it's all set > for RR @ 7:30? > http://www.fullhyd.com/profile/locations/975/2 Rayalaseema Ruchulu 1st Main Road, Shanti Nagar, In The Lane Behind JNTU College, Masab Tank, Hy

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - hijacked for FOOD!!!

2008-12-04 Thread Rishab Ghosh
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 10:47:19AM +0530, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: > > apparently getting a local sim is a pretty tough task. > It's easier to do if you are a terrorist, apparently. i want a local sim badly, but not _that_ badly. nor are 72 white grapes an incentive for me. -r

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - hijacked for FOOD!!!

2008-12-04 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
> apparently getting a local sim is a pretty tough task. It's easier to do if you are a terrorist, apparently. Ram

Re: [silk] Conviction for attempted suicide

2008-12-04 Thread lukhman_khan
> > The "attempted" part certainly boggles, but my impression of the > > rationale for successful suicide is rather more prosaic than > > elsewhere on this thread: it's criminal not so much because we are > > concerned with any possible moral failing on the part of the dear > > departed, but becaus

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - hijacked for FOOD!!!

2008-12-04 Thread Rishab Ghosh
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 09:26:01AM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > I am hoping he will agree to meet me tomorrow instead. So it's all set > for RR @ 7:30? yes! rayalaseema ruchulu @ 7.30! and malini's phone may have run out of credits. mine is dutch but receiving smses is still affordable - +3

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - hijacked for FOOD!!!

2008-12-04 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > and if it's a 5-10 min walk from firanga paani, that sounds like a > perfect solution, no? You have no idea how insanely busy that road is - it is about 15 minutes by car to cover the distance, and a hazardous

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - hijacked for FOOD!!!

2008-12-04 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 19:46 +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > Southern Spice and RR are much the same, no? RR is about 0.5-1 kms > down the road from Firangi Paani. the review you linked to said this: "Besides, it's one of the few places in town that is secure enough to base its menu entirely on

Re: [silk] Conviction for attempted suicide

2008-12-04 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Dave Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The "attempted" part certainly boggles, but my impression of the > rationale for successful suicide is rather more prosaic than > elsewhere on this thread: it's criminal not so much because we are > concerned with any possible moral failing on the part of th

Re: [silk] [Silk] Calling Gadget gurus

2008-12-04 Thread Vinit B
> He hated roads, which forked. I promise not to make any Unix jokes on this. But, seriously, writing as often as once a week works for me. Always did want to show those newspaper gadget guru's what dummies they were, anyways! Only thing, I won't be able to give you Walt Mossberg style 2 page e

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - hijacked for FOOD!!!

2008-12-04 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > cheeni, are you in or out? :-) I haven't tried RR so far for this reason - "Unfortunately, there's not too much for the vegetarians to get excited about, but you do have a selection of pulusu (a sort of watered-d

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - hijacked for FOOD!!!

2008-12-04 Thread Rishab Ghosh
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 05:52:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dude am at the shilparamam reception yes, i'll be there soon too... silk/ruchulu meetup is tomorrow! -rishab

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - hijacked for FOOD!!!

2008-12-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dude am at the shilparamam reception -- srs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sent from my Nokia E71 -original message- Subject: Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - hijacked for FOOD!!! From: "Rishab Aiyer Ghosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 04.12.2008 19:21 On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 22:11 +0530, Zeenath Hasan wrote: > Yes

Re: [silk] Silk HYD meet - hijacked for FOOD!!!

2008-12-04 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 22:11 +0530, Zeenath Hasan wrote: > Yes to Firangi Paani on Friday, Dec 5th evening. hey! i am in hyd for 3 days and stuck at the HICC in the middle of nowhere and want to EAT. so malini and i and other silkers on IGF hereby hijack the silkhyd meet to start off at "Rayalaseem

Re: [silk] [Silk] Calling Gadget gurus

2008-12-04 Thread Balaji Dutt
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But you need to be more specific on the kind of gadget geek you want. We > have: > > * Photo geeks > * GPS geeks > * Hardware geeks > * Software geeks > * Motor geeks (if you count cars as big, expensive gadgets) > and mor

Re: [silk] Introducing myself - in the tone I, me, myself

2008-12-04 Thread Anil Kumar
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:14:07 +0530, "Sanjeev Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ah! from I, me & Myself to U...U & me .well some years back or many > years back...I met U (in a party - I know none of u and U will believe it if > I say temple!) Hey Sanjeev! Welcome!! I wonder how ma

Re: [silk] Conviction for attempted suicide

2008-12-04 Thread Dave Long
P.S. As another example of the wrong kind of blind justice, I never really grasped the need to convict someone for attempted suicide. The "attempted" part certainly boggles, but my impression of the rationale for successful suicide is rather more prosaic than elsewhere on this thread: it's c